{"id":10916,"date":"2025-04-16T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:45:42","slug":"the-suns-out-and-were-enjoying-it-wholeheartedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/04\/16\/the-suns-out-and-were-enjoying-it-wholeheartedly\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun’s out and we’re enjoying it wholeheartedly"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, I finished transplanting our peppers and got them into the greenhouse. Yea! But I’m now looking at a whole lot of leggy tomato seedlings that need to follow quickly. We haven’t had much sun lately and they don’t have lights on them. No wonder they’re leggy even though they’re in south-facing windows. Oh well, I just bury most of the stem. This encourages lots of roots to grow along the buried stem and makes strong seedlings to set out in the garden later on.<\/p>\n

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This is my very last pepper flat I transplanted, headed for the greenhouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As it was so sunny today, I took the solar-powered golf cart and drove to the various gardens to see what was what. Our rhubarb noses are just starting to pop up out of the ground. I can taste that first rhubarb pie now! I’ve not seen any vole damage on our fruit trees and that’s a huge relief. Those buggers sometimes climb up the protective screen and go down the trunk to girdle it during the winter. That usually kills the tree, which is very depressing.<\/p>\n

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It was so beautiful as I drove down the driveway to the gardens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Out at the Wolf Garden, I can sure see plenty of work waiting for us as the multitude of tomato cages, stakes, bean trellises, and variety name stakes glared at me in defiance. But the stakes are still frozen into the ground so we’re kind of safe. But soon. As soon as it dries up a little more, I’ll take the riding lawnmower over the weeds\/debris\/ corn stalks and chop them up for easier decomposition. We’re growing even more this year as the whole world situation seems ominous. And we’re sure not doom and gloom folks! Lots of food is a definite plus, regardless. I’m sure you feel the same.<\/p>\n

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There’s lots of work waiting for us in the Wolf Garden. Just look at the tomato cages and stakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I can’t wait to get busy in the new part of our front yard where I planted so many new flowers. Soon, they’ll be starting to come up and I am really excited.<\/p>\n

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I’m excited to get into the new part of our front yard to see new plants starting to come up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then there’s the freezer in the basement I want to get canned up. No, not the freezer, just the leftover meat in <\/em>it. We’ve been working on emptying it out to receive the beef from the processing plant. Any I can’t get canned up because of Easter, we’ll put in coolers, removing it as it thaws, to can up after Easter. We’re looking forward to having family around the dinner table and enjoying plenty of visiting. Now that I’ve got the golf cart running, granddaughters Ava and Delilah will have fun running it around the homestead. Happy and a very Blessed Easter to you all! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I finished transplanting our peppers and got them into the greenhouse. Yea! But I’m now looking at a whole lot of leggy tomato seedlings that need to follow quickly. We haven’t had much sun lately and they don’t have lights on them. No wonder they’re leggy even though they’re in south-facing windows. Oh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}